Trish Maxwell, executive director of Lafayette Adult Resource Academy, says she sees the changes coming to the GED as 'a great opportunity' rather than a 'countdown clock.'

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On and off over the past four years, Lafayette mother Felicia Arnett has inched closer to obtaining her General Educational Development diploma.

On a recent weekday, she sat in a classroom, hunched over a math textbook alongside retired Purdue University professor Will Dillon as he walked her through algebra problems that to her sometimes look more like a foreign language.

"He's real good with math," Arnett said of Dillon, a volunteer at the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy. "He breaks it down, makes math easy for you." ...